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Natural History

By John Healey, Pliny the Elder

The Histories

By Cornelius Tacitus, Kenneth Wellesley

Interzone

By William S. Burroughs

Pulphead: Notes from the Other Side of America

By Sullivan, John Jeremiah

The Spiritual Life of Children

By Robert Coles

Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born

By Jayana Clerk, Ruth Siegel

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

By Richard P. Feynman

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

By Toibin, Colm

Try Anything Twice

By Jan Struther

The Human Being Fully Alive: writings in celebration of Brian Thorne

By Contributors, Jeff Leonardi

The Imitation of Christ

By Thomas à Kempis, Knott, Bettmy I.

Moving Towards Home: Political Essays

By June Jordan

Hockney's Alphabet

By Stephen Spender, David Hockney

The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy

By Sofia Tolstoy, Cathy Porter

Ned Sherrin's Theatrical Anecdotes: A Connoisseur's Collection of Legends, Stories and Gossips

By Sherrin, Ned

War! Hellish War! Star Shell Reflections 1916 - 1918

By Barbara McClune, Jim Maultsaid

Literature and Tourism: Essays in the Reading and Writing of Tourism

By Mike Robinson (Sheffield Hallam University), Hans-Christian Andersen (University of Northumbria, Newcastle)

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

By Gertrude Stein

A Prison Diary Volume III: Heaven

By Jeffrey Archer

Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power: 'riotously candid' Sunday Times

By Swire, Sasha

Buttoned-Up: The East London Line

By Gert Jonkers, Jop van Bennekom

The Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in England in the 1930's

By Samuel Hynes

Adventures in the Orgasmatron: The Invention of Sex

By Christopher Turner

The Road to Wigan Pier

By George Orwell

Promises, Promises: Essays on Literature and Psychoanalysis

By Phillips, Adam

An Image of Africa: Chinua Achebe (Penguin Great Ideas)

By Achebe, Chinua

31 Songs

By Nick Hornby

The People Speak: Democracy is Not a Spectator Sport

By Anthony Arnove, Colin Firth, David Horspool

Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz

By Hobsbawm, Prof Eric

Letters To My Grandchildren

By Tony Benn